Terrible is the temptation to be good.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties.
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A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
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Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
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Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy.
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The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher’s knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs…. Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
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There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
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